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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "The Windhover," lines 1-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "B" lines"?
(a) Feminine.
(b) Masculine.
(c) Slant.
(d) Eye.

2. Which word is enjambed at the end of line 1 and the beginning of line 2?
(a) Kingdom.
(b) Daylight.
(c) Morning.
(d) Minion.

3. What is "sillion" (line 12)?
(a) An uncountable amount.
(b) The sparkling of a diamond.
(c) A type of soil.
(d) Sunshine.

4. To whom is the poem dedicated?
(a) Matthew Arnold.
(b) A Victorian minister.
(c) The poet's spouse.
(d) Christ.

5. In lines 10 and 11, the speaker says that the fire "that breaks from thee" is a billion times "lovelier" and more what?
(a) Sanctified.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Hypnotic.
(d) Rapturous.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the bird the "dauphin" of (line 2)?

2. What is the common name of the titular bird?

3. What would it mean to have "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?

4. What technique is employed in the poem's final two lines, "blue-bleak embers, ah my dear/ Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion"?

5. What does "shéer plód" mean (line 12)?

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